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Definition of Slate pencil
1. Noun. A pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slate Pencil
Literary usage of Slate pencil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"... suitable to be written upon with a slate-pencil; that some of these books
contained a small slate-pencil , and that others did not; that these articles ..."
2. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"The Connection between Slate-Pencil and Gum Chewing and Female Education. — What
took Place between 1713 and 1743. ..."
3. Spiritual Magazine (1869)
"The medium was provided with a slate, a piece of slate pencil, ... The doctor
taking the slate pencil, broke a piece off scarcely as large as the fourth of ..."
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